Western Digital has longer warranties and a great website

Western Digital Caviar (3.5-inch) and Scorpio (2.5-inch) Black drives have five-year warranty. They also have an excellent website for registering your hard drives. Their warranty replacement service is also first rate, as I discovered when I had to replace a WD drive a few months ago.

Most other hard drives, including Seagate, seem to have warranties no longer than 2 years. One other thing. You will probably notice the difference between a 5400 and 7200 rpm drive. Go for the 7200.

Both drives asked about are 5400 RPM Drives. I'm not disputing the benefits of faster HDD's in NB but when the OP asked about 2 particular drives I don't see the point in answering a question about drives that they didn't ask about.

They very specifically asked about 2 specific Drives and not any others so I assume that they have a reason for wanting to buy from this supplier and wants one of the drives that they asked about.

For that Reason I didn't make any mention of Samsung, Hitachi or other drives just the HP Supplied Seagate and the HP Supplied WD that they asked about.

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I bought a Western Digital 2TB HD over a year ago and it started playing up. Took it to my local computer guy who sold it to me and he told me it was faulty. He sent it back to WD who replaced it with a new one "no questions asked" That's good warranty back up service, I'm very happy.

Actually, I just did a RMA with WD, after replacing a Seagate drive

Personally, I like WD, their warranty is better. I had to attempt data recovery on a co-worker's Seagate that had the 'click of death' two years ago (data was NOT recoverable).

I replaced it with a WD Caviar. After two years, Windows would not start. The drive failed SMART diags BUT ALL data was recovered.

Believe it or not, the owner had just done a full backup (as I recommended she do after losing all her data once), and when she restarted the PC that same day, Windows went BSOD, as the drive was having issues.

I swapped it thru WD, no problem. I simply entered the serial number in their website and it said 'in warranty'...I then registered the drive to get a RMA number, shipped it to them ($10 of my cost) and it took about a week to get a replacement.

Preferences

I have replaced a lot of hard drives over the years, and have seen both brands fail. My current preference of the two brands at the moment is Seagate because I have seen less fail. But it seems every few years that my opinion changes based on experiences. I start seeing more and more failures of a particular brand that I used to favor, and then my opinion will sway the other direction.

Wish you the best in your choice, and suspect either drive likely be just fine and reliable.

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My own experiences mirror yours in this regard. These days, I never pass on the opportunity to emphasize the need for backups to my clients. Especially when replacing a faulty drive with a new one. Seems to be a coin toss which is best on any given day.

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